Navicular Syndrome Diagnosis

"Navicular disease is very difficult to study, because you can't reproduce it in a normal horse," said Earl Gaughan, DVM, of Kansas State University's College of Veterinary Medicine. "You can't then work backward from the disease to find a cure. The pathogenesis for navicular syndrome remains unproven, but there are some common trends."

He discussed many considerations in

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